undermined

The author suggests that making cruelty a mandate has generated more public resistance and undermined enforcement effectiveness.

"The constant media speculation about my future and the campaign finance board's decision to withhold millions of dollars have undermined my ability to raise the funds needed for a serious campaign."

The investigations of political opponents, he says, are about targeting law-breakers and members of the "deep state" who undermined his first presidential term.

But even as she was being undermined by an egotistical boss at every turn, the former vice president did something remarkable that shouldn’t be forgotten.

The UK and France have clung to the idea that two separate states – Israeli and Palestinian – are the solution to the conflict here, even as Palestinian territory was taken, and Palestinian institutions undermined.